Advanced Manufacturing

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF By 2050 there will be an estimated 10 billion people on the planet, producing our…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As the cost of launching equipment and people into space plummets the reality of colonising…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As our understanding of how to turn mundane objects and materials into batteries increases in…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF 3D printed clothes can be customised and printed on demand using sustainable new materials, giving…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF By combining the power of AI with 3D printing the US military hopes to revolutionise…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Being able to create and control discrete chemical and biological processes and reactions is extremely…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Tomorrow’s world will be increasingly connected, and connecting old legacy devices and things has been…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Tens of millions of people a year go blind because of a lack of donor…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The world is storing more data than ever before and that’s a trend that will…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The cost of getting astronauts and cargo into space is still astronomical, a space elevator…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Being able to apply new properties to glass, such as liquid mirrors, could help companies…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Cyborg bacteria could be used to replace today’s silicon solar panels with higher efficiency, lower…